placenamesCoolbaun
An Chúil Bhán
Coolbaun’s surroundings contain an early nineteenth-century church and an estate where a fortified house was adapted over several generations.
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Chúil Bhán · Irish · main form · validated name
- Coolbaun · English · main form
- Coolbawn · English · main form · local name
Place & story
The church of 1822
Coolbaun Church stands in Kilbiller townland, approached through gates along a tree-lined avenue. Built in 1822 through the Board of First Fruits, it has a lower eastern chancel and a western tower rising in three stages. Squared limestone walls, diagonal buttresses and pointed openings give the small building a Gothic character. Its surrounding burial ground remains part of the historic setting. [2]
Castle Cambie’s successive building phases
Nearby Castletown, formerly called Castle Cambie, overlooks Lough Derg. Its four-storey fortified core dates to around 1600, while a two-storey wing was added around 1820 and connected by a taller linking block. Defensive loops survive alongside domestic sash windows, illustrating the building's changing use. Battlements conceal the roofs, and a pointed entrance connects the contrasting early and later parts. [3]
A gate lodge of three linked blocks
Castletown's gate lodge was built around 1790. Its unusual plan consists of three small gabled blocks, with the outer sections projecting and the rooms linked only at their corners. The central block contains the entrance, flanked by windows. This modest estate building provides a different scale of accommodation from the main house, while retaining a distinctive architectural design of its own. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Civil parish
- Kilbarron
- Coordinates
- 52.97853, -8.25311 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414512 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Coolbaun. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Coolbaun Church,Kilbarron,Kilbiller,record22400907 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Castletown,formerlyCastleCambie,record22400904 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Castletown gate lodge,record22400905 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-02-13. How this page was prepared.